Need an adrenaline rush after a wild New Year's Eve bender? Yes? Then read the linked Forbes article. A bunch of wild claims, insults and lies cooked together by one of the mouthpieces of business. A truly disgusting pile of garbage.
Where's the problem? Companies are too stupid to read through the license terms of software they want to use beforehand. They violate the openly available (and by now really thoroughly analyzed) GPL. They get into trouble with the FSF (which, after all, enforces the GPL - that's their job, among other things). Companies realize they screwed up and settle amicably with the FSF. So far so good.
What does Forbes make out of this? A communist conspiracy aimed at destroying commercial software. Wild insinuations that the GPL is just terrible and the companies are naturally just victims. And besides, that's the dark side of open source - how dare these proles actually enforce their licenses?
According to Forbes, everything should take a backseat to commerce and economic exploitation. For Forbes, open source programmers are probably just idiots who are supposed to supply material to talented managers and visionaries. Open source should apparently only consist of performance that can be exploited by companies free of charge and without conditions. Of course Forbes has no problem when the music industry enforces its rights. Or when Microsoft goes after software pirates again. Or when the film industry demands stricter rights to push through even more absurd restrictions on consumer rights.
What I find truly alarming about this is simply that Forbes can still write such garbage and that it's not only read but also believed.